Race is a tension that has been introduced into our culture that is wrought with internal conflict. The effects are deeply psychological. There is a video worth watching that drives the point home. It’s called, "A Girl Like Me," and …Read More
Race is inherent to the American experience. The next season of Survivor is going to divide the teams up according to race. Most people attend churches and live in neihborhoods that resemble their ace. The price of a private adoption …Read More
To talk about jazz is to talk about race. To choose a jazz based faith is to face race head on and to let it’s questions and tensions fuel one’s faith. A jazz based faith is not a race dominated …Read More
It’s that time of year again. The 2006 Black Weblog Awards are in the final stage of voting. There are finalist in a number of categories. I am familiar with two of them and, in my opinion, they are worthy …Read More
"Call and Response" are hallmarks of jazz because it was incubated in the black church. Preacher calls and congregation responds…horn calls and piano responds…Langston Hughes calls and Ralph Ellison responded. Langston Hughes wrote his famous poem, "Harlem: A Dream Deferred" …Read More
In the prologue of Invisible Man, the narrator seeks light in his darkness by iluminating his hole with 1369 light bulbs. The number is a tribute the the year 1936. That was when he moved to New York City and …Read More
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Robert Gelinas
Robert Gelinas is Lead-Pastor (and resident Jazz Theologian) of Colorado Community Church—a multi-cultural, interdenominational community of 3000+ followers of Christ in the Denver area.
Author of Finding the Groove: Composing a Jazz-Shaped Faith (Zondervan) and the upcoming, Strange Fruit: The Cross as a Way of Life (2011).
Founder of Project 127, a ministry dedicated to seeing the day when there are no children waiting for homes in Colorado's foster care system. Robert deeply desires to see the body of Christ mobilized to serve the least of these. The poor, the down and out, the disenfranchised and disabled, those deemed unimportant and the unborn. He believes that God loves all people yet he has a special heart for the poor and the poor in spirit, the miserable and the marginalized.
A Contributing Editor for Leadership Journal and Urbanfaith.com.
He acquired a B.A. in Bibilcal Studies from Colorado Christian University and a Master of Arts in World Christianity (Missiology) from Denver Seminary.
Robert is married to the love of his life, Barbara, and they have six energetic children (3 boys & 3 girls--one bio, five adopted--two from Ethiopia).
Friend of God...Passionate about the Body of Christ...Lover of this thing called jazz!
Please visit Jazztheologian.com for contact info., speaking schedule, videos, Facebook and Twitter.